Learn from the Sinner’s words about the defeat

We all often talk about the importance of accepting mistakes.

Jannik Sinner’s words at the end of the match he lost in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open tell us how an athlete expresses himself when it comes to accepting a defeat. “Today’s was a lesson. The defeat makes me realize that I still have a lot left, I need to have more solutions in the match, learn to do different things. Tsitsipas moved better, served better, hit better than me. Difficult to play against him when he is so aggressive.”

It’s not a matter of saying, as many do, that the other guy played better, but of realizing how much difference there was between you and your opponent. And then getting into the merits of those differences.

Many athletes, on the other hand, are not aware of what separates them from their opponents. Evaluation tells us Sinner does not consider absolute values. Instead, it concerns the relationship between the two opponents, it refers to how the other played to win points against me and what I did to lose them.

Only in this way can a path to improvement be formulated.